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Effect of Apple’s Obfuscated Email in iOS 15 on Fraud Detection

Introduction In September, Apple released iOS 15 and along with the update came the “Hide My Email” feature. With this release, iOS and Mac users with a paid iCloud Plus […]

10.7.2021

Ekata

Creating a Better Customer Experience with Probabilistic Data

Ekata offers what is called a probabilistic approach to risk with identity verification. This is different from traditional methods, which are more deterministic. The advantage to using a probabilistic solution […]

9.23.2021

Ekata

Increase Thin-File Customer Acquisition Rate with Account Opening API 1.1

Customers have hundreds of choices for their banking needs — and once they choose, they aren’t likely to switch. This makes capturing customers early key to achieving revenue goals. An […]

9.20.2021
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Ekata

What Is a Standard Data Evaluation?

As one of our primary job functions, the Field Data Science (FDS) team works with our sales team and potential customers to assess the best way to prove the value […]

8.24.2021
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Ekata

Understanding the Science Inside the Ekata Identity Engine

Every time I make a purchase online, I often wonder how the retailer knows if I’m a real customer or a fraudster. Turns out that I’m not the only one […]

8.17.2021
Fraudster Identity

Ekata

Fraudsters Are Overtaking Your Verification Methods

Many websites depend on one-time password (OTP) verification to fight fraud and ensure contactability in their account sign-up workflows. More sophisticated platforms may use static metadata about phones, such as […]

7.13.2021

Ekata

Using Machine Learning for Rule Building

Many of our customers use rules in their fraud workflows to identify good and bad actors. These rules, which are combinations of conditional statements that operate as data filters, can […]

7.1.2021
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Ekata

Fraud in the Buy Now Pay Later Industry

Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) is not a new idea, but with the boom in e-commerce during the Covid-19 pandemic, BNPL has exploded onto the payments scene as a major […]

6.24.2021

Ekata

Digital Account Opening is Where the Competition Starts

Original authors are Trenton Spratling, Global Account Director at Ekata, and Wendy Hokanson, Global Head of the Financial Services Market Segment at Ekata Looking back in the last year, there […]

6.17.2021

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